Grammy-nominated Lianne La Havas is blessing ears with a model new track titled “Paper Skinny.”
Over a guitar-led backdrop, La Havas presents a stirring vocal about standing sturdy in your reality even if you happen to see your self as “paper-thin.”
“Paper skinny / God solely is aware of the ache you’re in / However the future’s shiny / and also you’ve obtained God in your facet,” she croons on the observe.
Talking on her new single, La Havas explains, “‘Paper Skinny,’ for me, is the track that began this complete factor. It began as a distant melody in my head as I used to be falling asleep that I made a decision to not sleep on.”
“Paper Skinny” will seem on the Britain singer-songwriter’s self-entitled album, due out July 17 through Nonesuch Data. It’s her first full-length venture since 2015’s Blood.
“That is my first self-produced album with my very own band. I obtained my very own means with every little thing—all the selections that you simply hear on this album have been mine,” La Havas says.
“I’ve tapped into the very best and worst components of me and whereas I didn’t anticipate this to be the course of my new music, it’s my actuality and it’s pushed by emotion. I dare say that that is the closest I’ve gotten to a pure expression thus far. In the event you’d by no means heard me earlier than, I’d be completely happy to say, ‘That is me. That is who I’m.’”
La Havas’ upcoming LP options “Bittersweet,” which was launched in February and a canopy of Radiohead’s “Bizarre Fishes.”
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